What if we could uncancel the future?
We need something with a focus on action and possibility. We need a movement that shares stories of what’s possible, creating futures so exciting that people can’t help but want to make them happen.
We need something with a focus on action and possibility. We need a movement that shares stories of what’s possible, creating futures so exciting that people can’t help but want to make them happen.
Though nature’s cycles are increasingly uncertain, the Nisg̱a’a relationship with the beloved oily oolie is steadfast. Once the grease is ready, the workers will siphon it off and strain it into jars—preserving a taste that links hundreds of generations of human and fish for another season.
These projects and many others like them are quite literally weaving traditional knowledge, culture, and Native values more deeply into these villages and communities across Southeast Alaska.
This world is not a billiard ball table where we advance by banging into one another. It is a world of relationships, constantly changing, everything in some way feeding everything else. It is a world of mutuality and reciprocity.
Words can’t fully express our current predicament. We need other tools and other ways of making sense of the situation we now find ourselves in.
The third thing doesn’t require dreaming, but waking up. It’s more like a property of physics, the round Earth that triangulates everything. It’s also alive, meaning it responds to our efforts and brings its own powers, processes, pathways and beneficial relationships to the project.
We need to act where we can most effectively act now, in our communities and bioregions, cities and states. We’re only going to make it working together, building the future in place.
When it comes to building community resilience—or building community at all—we have our work cut out for us.
Farming is a science but it is also an art. There is no one book, one philosophy, one six-week course which can teach that.
We have the option to utterly divest, and build CARE based opportunities outside the current system. Which is what CARE-HOME-FARM is. It’s a model, which we hope to test and explore in real life, for an inter-sufficient community.
From a society-wide perspective, a new consciousness a involves major cultural change and a reorientation of what society values and prizes most highly.
The Spinsters hope to both beautify the downtown core and bring wool manufacturing back to Bellingham. They’re not the only ones looking forward to the transformation. Downtown Bellingham Partnership’s Jenny Hagemann says Spincycle’s move is “an exciting chapter” in the neighbourhood’s “continued revitalization.”